Show HN: Trmnl, a hackable e-ink dashboard that helps you stay focused
TRMNL is an e-ink device designed to enhance focus, supporting over 52 apps with customizable layouts, requiring minimal maintenance, prioritizing privacy, and receiving positive user feedback for quality and functionality.
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TRMNL is a new e-ink device designed to enhance focus by providing a dedicated screen for essential information. It connects with over 52 popular apps, allowing users to customize their dashboard with various layouts and groupings for different times of the day. The device is designed for low maintenance, requiring a charge every three months, and prioritizes user privacy by ensuring that data remains secure and inaccessible to outsiders. TRMNL is also open-source, enabling users to create custom plugins easily. Early users have praised the device for its quality, ease of setup, and effective functionality without unnecessary complexity. The product has received positive feedback for its sleek design and responsive customer support, with many users expressing satisfaction with its performance as a simple, distraction-free tool for managing daily tasks and information.
- TRMNL is an e-ink device aimed at improving focus and productivity.
- It supports over 52 apps and allows for customizable dashboard layouts.
- The device requires charging every three months and emphasizes user privacy.
- Users have reported high satisfaction with its quality and ease of use.
- TRMNL is open-source, allowing for the creation of custom plugins.
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8 commentsA few questions:
1. Is the dev edition hardware different?
2. If not, it possible to upgrade to a dev edition later, ie. Is it just a config thing on the server end?
3. If I have multiple trmnls how do I manage them? Is it possible? Do I need multiple accounts? Do they show the same stuff etc? Is "dev edition" for my account or per-device?
4. Using multiple apps - is it a split screen display, or do it cycle through the apps every x seconds? Is there a button to advance to the next one?
5. What's the resolution in real terms? Ie. Can I get a full month calendar to show and still be able to read entries? How many lines of Todo-list items can I have? What happens to over-flowed items?
6. how does it get updates? does it connect to my phone via Bluetooth or to my WiFi? Can it store multiple WiFi networks, for if I want to take it places?
ps. the mobile navigation bugs sometimes (with the animation loading randomly it seems) so I couldn’t find the plugin docs at first, and there is no navigation back to the main page from the plugin directory it seems. hope that helps.
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